VODetails: 'Day of the Falcon'

"Day of the Falcon."

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto

Official Synopsis: "Starring Antonio Banderas, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, and Tahar Rahim, 'Day of the Falcon' is a soaring epic of honor, greed, betrayal and love from award-winning director Jean-Jacques Annaud. After years of bloody conflict, the leaders of two rival kingdoms reluctantly agree to end the fighting. But when oil is discovered between their territories, the war is re-ignited. Now it is up to their children -- young lovers who have married in hopes of bringing the families together -- to find a way to end the violence and bring peace to the land."

Trailer:

Reviews:

Martin Roberts, Fan the Fire:

"There are instances when the narrative veers off course, but it always looks pleasant enough and the score, although it shoots for epic too often, is effective."

Maryann Johanson, Flick Filosopher:

"There’s a lot of golden-age Hollywood in this tale of the earliest days, in the 1930s, of the Arab oil kingdoms. Some of it is just plain fun: sweeping desert vistas and epically staged battles on horseback."

Andrew Pulver, The Guardian:

"Feels like it could have been made in the 1950s; we have come to expect a little more from our blockbusters."

Mark Adams, Daily Mirror:

"The clumsy script never really delivers epic drama. Great action scenes, though."

Jane Crowther, Total Film:

"This Lean-lite epic fails to strike the good stuff from the get-go with undermining international casting and a leaden script."

"Day of the Falcon" is now available on VOD.